Paul Ramsey, Geospatial Architect at OpenGeo and longtime leader in the PostGIS open source community, presented the keynote at PgCon, the international gathering of core PostgreSQL developers and community members in Ottawa, Canada on May 19. The keynote covered the PostGIS spatial database, how GIS is being used inside PostgreSQL, and the specific development efforts needed to improve PostgreSQL and PostGIS in the future. Ramsey noted that future GIS workloads will include more and more massive analysis requiring support for parallel query execution inside the database. He also pointed to GPS-embedding as generating new data streams that are large enough to require parallel processing for simple storage workloads. Learn More
